Winter 2006

Course Description

The goal of this course is to study some recent and some
not-so-recent significant works of research where techniques of
information theory are used to prove theorems in computational
complexity theory.

For the first phase of the course, we will learn the basics of
information theory. We will use the excellent textbook by Cover and
Thomas during this phase. This phase will last about 1/3 of the term.
After that, we will move on to reading the papers themselves. The work
for a registered student will be one homework during the initial phase,
presentation of a paper (or part) during the second phase, and scribing
notes for a few lectures and typesetting them in LaTeX.